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June 26, 2017

Why a Hawk kills Chickens (FOLK STORIES FROM SOUTHERN NIGERIA WEST AFRICA, 1910) BY ELPHINSTONE DAYRELL

Recently I read the Dyna’s translation of the Tanzanian folk-tale The hawk and the hen and instantly fell in love with the story. To my great surprise hawks not only kill hens in Tanzania, but...

June 25, 2017

The Seafarer (Translation from OLD ENGLISH POEMS, 1918)

Today is the International Day of the Seafarer. The official purpose of the day is to give thanks to seafarers for their contribution to the world economy and the civil society; and for the risks...

June 24, 2017

Top 5 Summer Solstice and Midsummer Tales

Ever since prehistoric times summer solstice has been a day of great importance. Rituals and traditions have evolved in many countries around the day. In many European countries bonfires are lit to celebrate the...

June 24, 2017

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June 23, 2017

ST. JOHN’S EVE by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

ST. JOHN’S EVE A STORY TOLD BY THE SACRISTAN OF THE DIKANKA CHURCH Thoma Grigroovitch had one very strange eccentricity: to the day of his death he never liked to tell the same thing...

June 22, 2017

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils...